An Inconvenience Of Snow

Day 152: Why is it snowing so abundantly in bloody March, I want to know! At most, the Pacific Northwest gets a couple of dustings in this, the month when Spring purportedly begins. Yet today, I found four inches on the ground when I drew back the drapes, and it is continuing to snow, the total accumulation now registering at approximately six inches depth, sufficiently that the crows sank belly-deep in it when they came to feed at the board.

Grosbeaks such as this fellow and the other smaller birds walk on the top of it, repeated landings knocking most of it off the feeder roofs. Below the feeders, the surface is stamped with tiny footprints and peck marks where the ground crew has been cleaning up scattered seed. To them, beings with no regard for the calendar, this snowfall is but a minor inconvenience. To me, on the other hand, it is a puzzlement. Why a January snow in March? That's what I want to know.